Icons

Today: Made some and sent some. Enjoy.

New Desktops

Hello everyone, I know, its been a long time since my last post. Busy. Busy. For those of you waiting for your Icons, they will be done shortly I have about 3 left to do, until i have no more. I just did a whole bunch of new Desktops for the freeware section of DVG. Check 'em out , feel free to download and use. Signing Off
~Shal

Open

I've just re-opened my order page for those who are interested.

Done

I've finished all regular orders and sent them out. I have a few things to finish up and then I'll reopen. Should be open before the weekend is up.

Untitled

Sending out the very last few icons here- I'm beginning to send them with the halloween masks...Those are really fun- I hope we have some lazy customer's in our queues who would be willing to just be themselves on the 31st.

A day or two of solid work and I'll be able to re-open.

In the meantime, check out Shal and José's work...I'm a hack compared to some of the stuff they send out. :-)

Update

I sent out a bunch of order over the past few days. Only 7 remain. When I finish up on those final 7, I'll open up my order page again.

I've been getting emails from a few people asking when I'll reopen my page. Well, once those 7 are done, you'll have your answer :-)

Also, in the next few days, we'll be starting our Halloween Mask promotion! This is really cool: Every order we send out between the 10th and Halloween will also include a "mask" file. Esentially its a regular JPEG, but with a "cut out" line around te head, eyes, and mouth. It will also be formatted for an 8.5x11 page.

I will try hard to open my personal page by the 10th (but no promises). But, Shal and Jose will also be doing the halloween mask stuff- So you can get your fix from them, too.

One more thing- While I'll try and get most "halloween" orders out to you guys BY halloween- I can't promise it.

Manipulating the will of IE for Windows

It's been a common complaint of vistors to my site (Of the Windows-using variety) that transparent PNGs dont render correctly on Internet Explorer....Well, Aaron Adams provided me with this very cool java script that corrects IEs shortcomings...Even better is that it's one little line of code, so Firefox and Mac users wont notice the change.

So as much as I hate bowing to the will of a broken arcitecture- There ya go. And now that it works- Switch to firefox.

Orders

Things are going well in the first week of orders, I've actually had to close down my own personal order form so I can catch up.

I REALLY urge people to try Shalimar and José's icons. They are SO amazing.

I hope everyone is enjoying their new icons and the new site.

New Iconize

Well I got a bunch of orders today. Its fancy schmance. Ill keep the blog updated with my progress.
W00T.

Shal

Welcome to the new Iconize Me!

Wow....I've been open for only half a day, and the orders are already pouring in- Even at the higher price! Which leads me to the number one question I'm getting: "Why the higher price?" Simple. Supply and demand. :-)

Anyway....I hope everyone enjoys the addition of Shalimar and José to the team. They are both SO talented...I can't wait to see some of the work they come up with...Talk about a bargain!

Anyway, maybe I'll be able to buy a new iPod nano with all these orders ;-)

If anyone has any questions or complaints, feel free to contact me: paul@dv-graphics.com

Iconize Me!

All orders that were placed between June and August are complete. If you have not recieved yours: First, check you spam folder. If its not there, then drop me a line and I'll resend it.

For everyone who has been waiting to place an order for the past two months, check back in a few days.

Frames

You used the little frames! Totally my idea. :-)

September

So it seems we showed up on digg.com....Which is odd because I'm not accepting orders right now. Oh well.

Speaking of not accepting orders- I'm looking for a September 1st opening. It's not POSITIVE, theres a lot of work to be done- But thats what I'm shooting for (With my track record, it'll be October 5th ;-)

Check http://www.iconizeme.com on Sept 1st- Hopefully there will be something new.

Titles are hard to think of.

Getting the FINAL bunch of icons out for the summer. Sorry for the delay everyone. Look for your "missing" orders in the next 8 days.

I'm also working on something really cool. Those of you who were waiting for Iconize Me! to reopen- Stay tuned.

Wasting away

I wish I could have Iconize Me! open like I had promised this summer. But I'm still dealing with a day job and the site- So it's just not possible. Getting really close to finishing every single order- So that's good. Again, it still stands that if you are angry that you haven't gotten an order, you can bug me and I'll do the best I can.

I'm in the middle of doing even more drastic changes on Iconize Me!, I hope the results will be visable soon. It'll involve service changes, site changes- The works.

School is also slated to start-up again soon....That means in place of a summer job I'll have classes and homework- So no more free time than I have now....But the good news is school forces me to work really hard, and my work always gets better- Which means better Icons and stuff. so yay!

paul@dv-graphics.com

Icons...still

I've been getting a steady flow of icons sent out on on my days off lately. Day in which I have work are hard...I'm usually not able to finish any. So usually the 2 days off a week I get are my icon days...Which is why things are slowish.

The Iconize Me! Project

I got a lot of orders done today...I hope all of you who got them are pleased with the outcome. I have a late night tomorrow, but I have thursday off, so I'll get a bunch more done then.

Because I got so many out tonight, I decided to reward myself with a little project I've had in my mind for a while. I've decided to dub it "The Iconize Me! Project"....Essentially, I'm making two 36x24 posters...each one will have 900 images. One poster will be 900 icons I did for Iconize Me! and the other will be the 900 corresponding photos that were sent for those icons. Each icon/photo will be in the same position on the posters. This is really just for me, I'm not mass producing or selling them. So those of you who have had icons done don't need to worry about your image being everywhere- This is just for myself.

Why only 900? Well, I wanted them to still be large enough to see, for one. But I also needed a number that could easily be divided into portrait-sized boxes for the poster. Also- 900 is still an impressive number ;-)

I might post small thumbnail updates of the poster as it goes along. As of right now, I only have 12 images in place...It's very time consuming. I'm pretty much choosing random images, but I still have to keep track to make sure there are no duplicates.

Charlie!!

Everyone, go see Charlie and The Chocolate Factory! It's amazing!

Complications

My work sched. changed drastically this week...So I didn't get out as many icons as I had hoped. However, this upcoming Monday and Tuesday I have off- So I'll be able to work on them then.

Icons

I got quite a few icons done today. I sent out 6 this evening alone. Enjoy everyone. I work for the next 4 days- So icons will be few and far between until I get another day off.

Site issues followup

Ok! We're back online. No worries now.

Yipes! Site problems!

Ok, I know not many people will see this, but just incase:

I had some issues with my hosting company today with my credit card and it's resulted in them taking down DV Graphic temporarily. This includes DV-graphics.com, IconizeMe.com, DVGdesign.com and a few others.

My biggest concern are my Iconize Me! customers right now- If they have a problem and try to visit the site, they're going to be greeted by a big, scary, german-language error....Which, if I were in their shoes, I would think "Well, these people just took my money and disappeared"....But I didn't! I'm still here!

So if you know anyone who is a current customer, please try and direct them to this blog. I will keep updating it as I resolve this issue.

Likewise, because my server is down, I'm not able to use my DVG email addeys (iconize@, paul@, etc)...so if anyone needs to contact me, I can be reached here:
paulsahner@earthlink.net

Now if only this company had 24-7 billing and tech support. Dern. Ok, Hopefully this will all be cleared up tomorrow.

Backorder

I've had a lot of work lately, but in between shifts and on my days off I'm managing to get quite a few icons out each day.

I still have a lot to go, but I'm getting through it.

Label

I am having such a hard time placing type on this label!

Iconize Me!

Sent out 10 orders in the past 2 days....Enjoy everyone.